Benjamin Edwards

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Professor of Law

Expertise: Business and securities law, Corporate governance, Professional ethics, Alternative dispute resolution

Biography

Benjamin Edwards researches and writes about business and securities law, corporate governance, professional ethics, and alternative dispute resolution.

He has served as chair of the Sections on Securities Law, Professional Responsibility, and Transactional Law and Skills for the Association of American Law Schools. Before teaching, Edwards practiced in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. His prior work includes matters related to the Madoff Ponzi Scheme, consumer protection, financial crisis litigation, securities litigation, and securities arbitration.

His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Hill, Salon, The Daily Beast, Investment News, and other outlets.

Education

J.D., Columbia Law School
B.A., University of South Carolina

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Future of ‘DExit': Four Factors Driving State Reincorporations

As Delaware, the country’s long-established corporate capital, saw several high-profile companies leave the state last year, a debate is building whether ‘DExit’ will be a lasting trend.

A Look At The Wild West Of Business Court Constitutionality

Mondaq

Aside from Delaware's Court of Chancery, state business courts are relatively new, with New York and Illinois starting commercial dockets in 1993 and other states starting their own systems at a fairly steady pace ever since. As of 2019, more states had their own business courts—either a separate court or aa docket within an existing state court—than didn't.

A Look at the Wild West of Business Court Constitutionality

Law.com

Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada each want to appoint, not elect, the judges that sit on their business courts. But state constitutions vary as to whether they allow those appointments.

DOL Drops Legal Defense of Biden Fiduciary Rule

WealthManagement.com

The Labor Department is closing the book on the Biden administration’s iteration of the fiduciary rule and dropping its defense of the regulation in court.